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Virtus Inspire Ventures

Founders Vic Lee

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 6
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
  • Biopharma
Summary

The venture was found in Asia in Hong Kong. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Hong Kong.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Virtus Inspire Ventures, startups are often financed by GV, Novartis, InCube Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shire, SV Tech Ventures, Ping An Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Decheng Capital, B. Braun Medical.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Apexigen, Rani Therapeutics, Gordian Surgical. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Life Science, Health Care.

The fund was created by Vic Lee. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Design Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$5M12 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Apexigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$65M24 Mar 2020 California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
$20M19 Jul 2019 Beijing

Apexigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$58M08 Aug 2018 California, United States

SmartZyme BioPharma, Ltd.

Biotechnology
Diabetes
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
14 Mar 2018 New York, United States

Gordian Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$2M07 Dec 2016 North District

Gordian Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$1M20 Oct 2015 North District

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Total investments 9
Average round size 22M
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.33
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Design Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$5M12 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Apexigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$65M24 Mar 2020 California, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
$20M19 Jul 2019 Beijing

Apexigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$58M08 Aug 2018 California, United States

SmartZyme BioPharma, Ltd.

Biotechnology
Diabetes
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
14 Mar 2018 New York, United States

Gordian Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$2M07 Dec 2016 North District

Gordian Surgical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$1M20 Oct 2015 North District
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